Yesterday, Sunday October 17, spirits in our refugee camp in Lattakia, Syria, were high as a Greek cargo ship sailed towards Lattakia to pick up our 150 vehicles filled with five million dollars worth of medical and educational aid destined for the besieged people of Gaza. Hopes were high that all 380 convoy participants from more than 30 countries would have an early-morning Monday departure.
Read MoreIn 2008, one of Cuba’s top young players decided to abandon his country’s squad and try his luck at professional soccer in the United States. Two years later he is in Alaska, of all places for a Caribbean native, still kicking the ball but struggling to make inroads in US soccer.
Read More“It’s important to realize that low-budget cinema, which is resource-poor but rich in ideas and enthusiasm, is a major ally in the defense of the environment and the search for solutions to environmental problems,” Teresita Tellería, vice president of ProNaturaleza, a Cuban environmental organization.
Read MoreWhat nature gives us is often taken for granted, but if its basic elements disappear, human life on Earth would not be possible. The mission of the biodiversity summit under way in Nagoya, Japan is to reverse the headlong rush towards the precipice.
Read MoreBaracoa, the first city founded in Cuba by the Spanish colonizers, has recovered 90.4 per cent of the homes affected by Hurricane Ike and the March 2008 coastal flooding, Alicia Licet Noa, director of the Housing Investment Municipal Unit, announced. The hurricanes that hit the country two years ago damaged more than 300,000 homes throughout the Caribbean island nation.
Read MoreThe Cuban government is determined to “do away with the opposition” by sending political prisoners and other dissidents to Spain, Laura Pollán, the spokeswoman for Ladies in White, a group of wives and relatives of those inmates, said. According to Pollán, the island’s authorities have started offering the possibility of leaving the country to other opposition members not linked to the 2003 trials.
Read MoreCuban authorities hope the upcoming 2010-2011 sugar harvest’s production will be similar to last year’s, the worse since 1905, Adrián Jiménez Fernández, deputy minister of that sector, affirmed. Thirty-nine sugar mills throughout the island, a former sugar exporting power, will be operating in this harvest, which will begin on December 1.
Read MoreIn the context of ongoing conciliation between the Cuban government and the Roman Catholic Church, the communications media of the latter are growing quickly on this Caribbean island where the press remains under strict state control.
Read MoreThe big surprise was the absence of outfielder Frederich Cepeda, for several years the most consistent Cuban batter at international events who was on the tournament all-stars in Puerto Rico. No reason was given by the Cuban baseball authorities.
Read MoreCubans, in their customary greetings, usually say that they’re en la lucha (in the struggle). There’s even a popular joke that maintains that Cuba’s national sport isn’t baseball, but…the struggle. (19 photos)
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